What is Hadoop?

Big data and Hadoop are the most popular words in the 2012, 2013 and going forward. Digital world has started using huge data for analysis. But, the traditional database management systems are not capable of handling BIG data. So, Hadoop was born to help data analyst and data scientist.

Hadoop is a free, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment.

Many of use still having confusion about it’s name and its purpose. Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting. Do you know why he named this framework as Hadoop? So, to Understand the basic of Hadoop and demystifying Hadoop, please watch this video.